Apparatus for filling cans.



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PATENTBD DBO. 8,1903. H. J. HAIN. APPARATUS FOR FILLING CANS.

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' No. 746,326. PA'IENTED DEC. 8, 1903.

H. J. HAIN.

APPARATUS FOR FILLING CANS.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. HAIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

APPARATUSFOR FILLING CANS.-

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 746,326, dated December 8, 1903. Application filed March 28, 1903. Serial No. 149,931. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, HENRY J. HAIN, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Filling-Cans, of which the following is al specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained' and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions- My invention relates to apparatus for filling cans, its object being to effect such filling in a quick and ready manner and in a manner such as to provide each can with exactly the same quantity of liquid.

Said invention consists of means hereinafter described and particularly set forth in the claim.

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detail certain mechanism embodying the invention, such disclosed means constituting but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention maybe used.

In said annexed drawings, Figure I represents a side elevation of apparatus embodying my invention as particularly applied to the filling of cans with paint. Fig. II represents, on an enlarged scale, a front elevation of the paint-reservoir, partially broken away,

' showing also a row of cans in position tobe filled. Fig. III represents, on a smaller scale,"

a side elevation of said reservoir; and Fig. IV represents such side elevation with parts in vertical longitudinal section.

each of which is secured a faucet C, consisting, primarily, of a spout c and an oscillatory valve member'c. Upon the front of the reservoir are secured ,two bearings 11 d, in which are journaled a transverse shaft D. At a point intermediate of the shafts ends is secured a hand-lever d, and at one end thereof is secured a counter-weight 01 At another intermediate point is secured a sleeve d provided with a lug (1 This lug oscillates between two adjusting-screws a", mounted in a bracket a, secured to said front wall- These screws and the lug,'it will be seen, determine the length of the oscillatory stroke of said shaft. Keyed upon the shaft is a plurality of arms (1 equal in number to the number of faucets. In theend of each'such arm is pivoted an eye 01 through which extends the threaded upper portion of a rodE, which is adjustably secu red by means of two nuts e 6, one on each side of said eye. The lower end of such rod is pivotally secured to the valve member 0' of a faucet. It will therefore be seen that all of the faucets may be operated simultaneously and the opening for the flow of paintmay be adjusted independently by raisbring the transverse rows of cans successively beneath the faucets. The table may be operated by a hand-crank, as shown, or by power, as ,will be readily. understood.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employed instead of trays are carried along by the table so 'as to the one explained, change being made as retion of a receptacle, a plurality of faucets arranged to discharge the contents of'such receptacle, and each providedwit'h'an oscillatory valve member adapted to control the flow through said faucet, a shaft mounted'in bearings secured to said receptacle and provided with a hand-lever whereby it may be oscillated, means forregulatingathe length of the oscillatory stroke of said shaft, the whereby the flow through each faucet may valve member of each faucet being connectalso be adjusted independently. ed with said shaft, whereby the valve mem- Signed by me this 3d day of March, 1903.

bers may be operated simultaneously, such HENRY J. HAIN. 5 connecting means consisting of a valve-mem- Attest:

her-operating rod, and an arm keyed to said 13. E. BORGES,

shaft, and adjustable relatively to each other, F. E. BUTLER. 

